Dealing with conflicts in your important relationships is challenging. Most teens and adults with high-functioning autism fear rejection and will do what they can to avoid it at all costs. So, when conflict arises, it can be extremely upsetting because it triggers feelings of shame. Unfortunately, most if not all relationships go through periods of conflict.…
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Making Friends When You’re On The Autism Spectrum
Making friends doesn’t come easy for everyone, especially when you’re neurodiverse. Often individuals with autism struggle to make friends because they’re fearful of being vulnerable, experiencing social anxiety, and struggle with the social skills necessary to make new friends. However, there are some simple things you can do to open your heart to new friendships that will enrich your life for years to come.…
Dating on the Autism Spectrum: The Importance of Working on Yourself First
Let’s face it, dating, especially when you’re neurodiverse, is hard. Dating requires social skills that many individuals with autism struggle with. This often causes them to feel very overwhelmed and anxious about the whole process. Today, I want to share why I recommend my clients with autism work on themselves before focusing their attention on finding a partner and being in a relationship. …
Being Single On Valentine’s Day When You’re on the Autism Spectrum
Being single on Valentine’s Day is hard, rather you are neurodiverse or neurotypical. Many individuals with high-functioning autism want to find love and be in a relationship. So, being single on Valentine’s Day serves as a painful reminder of their loneliness. However, this holiday doesn’t have to be depressing and sad.…
The Importance of Self-Advocacy When You’re on the Autism Spectrum
When you’re on the autism spectrum you may feel like an alien sometimes. Like no one on earth understands you. This makes it hard to function in a neurotypical world. You want to fit in, but that’s not easy for you. Sometimes, the harder you try and push yourself to fit in, the more uncomfortable you feel.…
I Was Diagnosed with High-Functioning Autism, Now What?
Many individuals with high-functioning autism are diagnosed later in life. Their autism often goes unnoticed due to average or higher than average intellect. Furthermore, in order to fit in many individuals with autism work very hard to mask or hide their autistic traits. And, when they do exhibit them, they are dismissed as being quirks or symptoms of other mental health or behavioral concerns.…
A Message for Autism Parents After Their Child’s Diagnosis
You’ve just received an autism diagnosis for your child or teen. Perhaps, you suspected you’d receive this news, or maybe it caught you off-guard. Regardless, you’re now an autism parent, and you’re probably wondering, what next? In my many years as an autism therapist, I have coached parents through a variety of different emotions and struggles regarding their child’s autism spectrum disorder diagnosis.…
Understanding High-Functioning Autism
As an autism expert, I was recently asked to define high-functioning autism. However, that term is more nuanced than you may expect. So today, I will offer some insight into neurodiversity and the terms associated with autism.
High-functioning Autism vs. Low-functioning Autism
Society and the medical community’s understanding of autism have evolved over the last 50 years.…
An Autism Therapist Reflects on 2020 & Offers Hope for 2021
As I think about ringing in the new year, I found happiness in the hope I feel for the new year. It no secret that 2020 was a wild year. It often felt like life was completely turned upside down. Suddenly my familiar routines and activities became impossible and I was left to figure out the new normal of social distancing.…
Women with Autism and Depression
Welcome back to our two-part blog series on autism and depression. Women on the autism spectrum frequently experience depression. This is largely due to the loneliness that comes from feeling like they don’t fit in or belong with other girls or women their age. After a while, they internalize this pain and begin to think that there’s something wrong with them and that’s why they don’t fit in. …
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